MISSION BAY PARK – A 25-year-old man was arrested early yesterday after a 90-minute standoff with SWAT officers near Mission Bay High School, police said.

Police went to Campland on the Bay about 11:30 p.m. after residents said the man fired a shot into the air and threatened to kill someone.

When officers arrived at the campground, the man stepped outside and fired off another round before returning to his trailer. Officers evacuated the immediate area and surrounded the trailer, then called for the SWAT team.

About 1 a.m., a companion came out of the trailer and was released after being questioned. The man suspected of firing his weapon came out a few minutes later.

He was arrested on suspicion of discharging a firearm in a grossly negligent manner.

Officers recovered a starter pistol inside the trailer. No one was hurt.

– Joe Hughes

Man wounded by police identified

BAY PARK – Police have identified the man shot by officers Friday near Morena Boulevard and Balboa Avenue as Anthony Patrick Durant, 24. He remained hospitalized yesterday for treatment of a single gunshot wound to the upper body.

Police said Durant was shot during a scuffle after he grabbed an officer around the waist and tried to remove the gun from her holster.

Officers had stopped to check on Durant after they saw him face down on a grassy slope near Morena Boulevard about 1:15 a.m. When he got up and tried to walk into traffic lanes, police tried to stop him. That prompted a brief struggle that ended when an officer shot him.

Charges are pending.

– Joe Hughes

Street race stopped; one driver arrested

OTAY MESA – Two San Diego police officers broke up a street race on Otay Mesa Road late Sunday, arresting a driver who tried to speed away when he saw a police car.

The officers stopped a 1993 Honda Civic after a two-mile pursuit, San Diego police spokesman Bill Robinson said. A 30-year-old Chula Vista man was arrested and his car was impounded.

The other driver remains at large.

Robinson said the racers were going in excess of 90 mph. Police were alerted by a 911 call around 9:30 p.m. reporting that about 12 cars were getting ready to race on Otay Mesa Road near La Media Road.

– Joe Hughes

Explosive device found on front porch

ESCONDIDO – Officers cordoned off their parking lot after a resident walked into police headquarters holding a small explosive device he said he found on the front porch of his Daisy Street home.

Police closed the lot about 1:30 p.m. after they told the man to take the device outside.

"It appeared to be something a kid would put together," Lt. Jim Maher said. "There was no degree of sophistication to it."

The ball-shaped device, wrapped in tape and connected to a fuse, was turned over to the sheriff's Bomb and Arson Squad, police said.

– Shanna McCord

Man sitting in car wounded in drive-by

ESCONDIDO – An 18-year-old man was shot twice in the chest in a drive-by shooting Sunday night, police said.

The victim was sitting in his parked car on Elder Street about 9 p.m. when a small car drove past him, turned around and passed him again, police said.

A passenger fired several shots into the victim's car.

The victim was taken to a hospital with wounds that were not believed to be life-threatening.

Police said the shooting is not connected to a Saturday night shooting that killed a 23-year-old man on Mission Avenue, a block from Sunday night's incident.

No one has been arrested in either incident.

– Shanna McCord

In other crime

SORRENTO VALLEY – A man hiding his face with a black hood and brandishing a small black handgun robbed Holiday Inn Express on Lusk Boulevard early yesterday. The bandit approached a clerk at the hotel about 4:10 a.m., demanded money and then took the cash drawer containing about $200.

VALENCIA PARK – A man briefly held an acquaintance against her will and barricaded himself in the attic of a Mira Flores Drive house Sunday night, police said. The man allowed the 27-year-old woman to leave around 11:50 p.m. About two hours later, officers entered the house and found a 44-year-old man hiding in the attic. When he refused to surrender, officers released a dog, which bit the man in the arm and leg.

The man was hospitalized for treatment of dog bites and then jailed on suspicion of kidnapping.